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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6605
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Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/04/98.
Creating lien rights for owners of sires providing semen
for artificial insemination.
AN
ACT Relating to artificial insemination procedures and reproductively viable
semen; amending RCW 60.52.030; adding a new section to chapter 60.52 RCW; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
60.52.030 and 1913 c 53 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The
owner or owners of any such sire receiving such certificate, by complying with
RCW 60.52.010 and 60.52.020, shall obtain and have a lien upon the female
served for the period of ((one year)) eighteen months from the
date of service, or upon the get of any such sire for the period of one year
from the date of birth of such get: PROVIDED, Said owner or owners shall file
for record a statement of account, verified by affidavit, with the county
auditor of the county wherein the service has been rendered, of the amount due
such owner or owners for said service, together with a description of the
female served, within ten months from the date of service or date of birth, as
the case may be: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the lien upon the get of any such sire
shall be a preferred lien: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That no sale or transfer of
any female animal served shall defeat the right of such lien holder.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. A
new section is added to chapter 60.52 RCW to read as follows:
When
an owner of a sire, or an owner of semen from sires, provides, for the
insemination of a female, reproductively viable semen from the sire, the owner
of the sire, or the owner of the semen, without satisfying the requirements of
RCW 60.52.010 and 60.52.020, upon delivery of the semen by artificial
insemination procedures, obtains and has a lien upon the female to which the
semen is delivered by artificial insemination procedures, or a lien upon the
offspring of that female as the result of delivery of the semen by artificial
insemination procedures. The lien upon the female survives for eighteen months
from the date of the insemination procedure; the lien upon the offspring
survives for one year from the date of birth of the resulting offspring. However,
the owner of the sire, or the owner of the semen, must, within ten months of
the date of the insemination procedure or the date of birth, file for record,
with the county auditor of the county where the insemination procedure was
rendered, a statement of account, verified by affidavit, indicating the amount
due to the owner for the reproductively viable semen, along with a description
of the female or the name and address of the person for whom the procedure was
provided. The lien, whether upon the female or upon the offspring, is a
preferred lien. Sale or transfer of the inseminated female or of the offspring
does not defeat the right of the lien holder.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 3. This
act takes effect July 1, 1998.
Passed the Senate February 14, 1998.
Passed the House March 5, 1998.
Approved by the Governor
March 20, 1998.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 20, 1998.
